with many thanks to my incredible editor Matthew Sherrill, to patient fact-checker Maya Perry, and to the Tarbell Center (www.tarbellcenter.org) for their financial support

lovely - not seen before!

sorry, I should also probably read silicon empires...!

this is v interesting Nick, thank you. this may be naive of me, but would you compare this to something like the Marshall Plan? obviously not providing cash, but it seems like you think of this as an export of US advantage to create economic/institutional dependence? are there better parallels?

i would also make a parlay bet that the object of devotion will be a claude model lol

i skimmed that - thought it was a fine video! the comparison to tesla FSD is spot on; utilizing hype to beta test

i've been got a few times myself lately - at least we're still in that point of time where we care lol

www.thebrewpuff.com/earlyaccess yeah it's AI - though they're apparently trying to make it into a real thing

it's AI, no? I've seen a few of these of late - a jacket full of pickles for example - and seems like a microtrend

think key to his success is his emotional volatility, which plays extremely well in the social media-driven landscape of business in the 2020s. Also, though this was cut for length, I think's motivated in part by resentment of elite institutions (financial and academic) that spurned him.

Karp's talk of "national purpose" and "shared mythology" are, like the subject of his Adorno-inspired PhD, examples of jargon that obscure reactionary politics. His true guiding mantra is the fusion of state and private enterprise for the organization and direction of violence.

so it is, thank you!